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Subject: [SBB] Foothills Park 2/22/04
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My class enjoyed an unrainy day at Foothills Park. We saw two pairs of
HOODED MERGANSERs, a single female BUFFLEHEAD, a dozen or
so RUDDY DUCKs, including about 5 males in breeding plumage, and a
fairly well-developed, juvenal-plumaged PIED-BILLED GREBE on Boronda
Lake. One of the male Ruddy Ducks was doing his bill-pumping, chest
bubbling displays. Several women in our group were overcome and had
to sit down for a while. Up to nine WESTERN BLUEBIRDs were seen in
Las Trampas Valley and 3-4 more at the boat dock. One female VARIED
THRUSH was seen near the maintenance yard in Las Trampas Valley. A
SHARP-SHINNED HAWK blazed by us a foot above the ground in pursuit
of sparrows, but they had long been aware of the danger and had flown 
off
into hiding.

Kendric and Marion Smith and I tried for the Townsend's Solitaire, as
Matthew Dodder reported, but we were not successful. We also looked
for but failed to find a Red-naped Sapsucker reported to us by Patti 
Sutch
and Michael Burns on their way in to try for the solitaire. It was 
reportedly
in an olive tree along the main road in front of the hostel. The tree 
was the
2nd (or 4th, depending on how you counted them) from the solitaire-end 
of
the row. A Hidden Villa worker reported that the solitaire was seen 
today
by birders. Perhaps Patti and Michael were successful and will have a
follow-up and can expand on their sapsucker sighting. We did see more
HERMIT THRUSHes at one time than any of us could remember in the
vicinity of the solitaire site magnolia tree. That was impressive.

Les Chibana

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